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Dissociative experiences are states of the human mind wherein one's thoughts, feelings, behaviors and memories can become split-off from one another. This may enable individuals to temporarily avoid distressing stimuli. Dissociation, thus, relies upon a person's primary response to stress or acts as a distorted coping strategy to demanding circumstances. This investigation aims to explore the relationship of Dissociative Experiences with Subjective Sleep Quality, Internet Addiction and Cyberbullying Victimization. A total of 205 female young adults completed the Dissociative Experiences Scale - II (Carlson & Putnam, 1993); Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) (Buysse et al., 1989); Internet Addiction Test (IAT) (Young, 1998) and Cyberbullying Victimization (CBV) Scale (Lee et al., 2017). Only those qualifying the cut-off for DES-II scale were included into the sample for the correlational analysis (N=122). The demographic data, academic information and online habits were taken a note of. t-test and Pearson correlational analysis were applied to identify the differences and associations between the psychological variables. The results showed significant differences as well as associations were found between the Dissociative experiences on subjective sleep quality, internet addiction and cyberbullying victimization. These conclusions could help forth in clinical assessment, prevention and awareness efforts, while ameliorating the under-recognition of dissociation among Indian youth.